Christchurch Durham

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NZ 2742 NE 10/57

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE CLAYPATH (North side) Christchurch Durham

(Formerly listed as United Reformed Church)

GV II

Congregational, United Reformed, Church at time of listing. 1885-6 by J.T. Gradon. Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with decorative red ridge tiles. Aligned north-south. Decorated style. Elaborate hinges to paired, two-centred-arched doors on street front in moulded arches with central pink granite column. Dog-tooth moulding to arches and to quatrefoil window over, set in shallow gabled panel with fleur-de-lis finial. Large five-light window above has head-stopped dripmould. Three cusped lancets at left of door and one at right. At extreme right, tower of four stages has two-centred-arched door facing forecourt and two-light window facing street in first stage; upper stages have blind arrow slits and three small lancets beneath broaching of octagonal belfry. Two-light louvred belfry openings under frieze; stone belfry spire with decorated bands on gargoyled base. Six lancets in north aisle; seven roundels to clerestory.

Piers, walls and gate in front: two square piers in front: broached to octagonal domed coping; cast iron lamp-holder finials. Dwarf wall linking baptistry and piers. Gothic-style iron gate at left to passage to rear. Rear has area railings of wrought iron with curved pointed heads.

Interior: painted plaster with boarded dado; crocketed cast iron columns; stone-corbelled brackets supporting king- and queen-post roof. West gallery now part of inserted first floor. Crocketed capitals to nave arcades with delicate spandrels or iron circles. Gothic style wide pulpit at east.

Listing NGR: NZ2756542683